Nick Clegg, a "communist". Vince Cable, a "socialist".
This is the euphonious sound of the Tory right on the warpath – and
with every marble intact. Dismiss such invective as mere boilerplate if
you will, but the increasing tendency to reach for the S word
as a polemical armament against the most humble proposals for reform
from pro-business centrists has a lineage, which it would be a mistake
to miss.